Month: October 2015

Assembly of HV Electrode UHV Chamber

One of responsibilities for the Ra EDM experiment is to test and condition high voltage electrodes. The goal is to achieve an electric field that is at least three times higher than what we’ve achieved in the past. This should improve the statistical sensitivity of our experiment by at least a factor of three and ...

The October Event

Today we celebrated the career of the former NSCL/FRIB Lab Director C. Konrad Gelbke and the release of Sam Austin’s book Up From Nothing which tells the story of the Cyclotron Lab from its humble beginnings in 1958. Aphorisms from CKG: The Big Picture is Important  Communication is the Product Intensity is good – but ...